Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hidalgo are the world's largest silver mines, owned by U. S. and British citizens, possible objects of expropriation...
...year to run the Divine establishment, pointed out that the Father had no visible means of support, persistently asked where he got his money. Preacher Divine explained: "I am a free gift to mankind. . . . Judas sold or betrayed the materialized Word of God for thirty (30) pieces of silver. But I, as a free gift to mankind, have been given." Suspected as the givers were some of the handsome, well-dressed white "angels" who mixed with the black in Heaven, shrieking of Peace...
Julius Gregory took time off from designing country homes to hammer out a pair of silver sugar tongs...
...technique is not excellent either. Tricks of the camera compensate for bad photography, and the many unusual shots, as that of the laborer removing his shirt, revealing a sinewy silver-sweated back, are beyond praise. But tedium reigns when too many impressionistic scenes of rushing water and driving storm appear. The sound effects are well executed: one can almost taste the cinders and smell the reek of the locomotive...
Washington's Senator Jones early this month approached President Hoover on a world conference to fix the monetary value of silver. The President was interested. But the State Department was understood to have sounded out France and Britain, found them both unresponsive...